Reece Thompson, Kat Dennings, Josh Lucas at the Ryerson Theatre on Friday (TT) Who’s got two thumbs and hates change? [crickets] But seriously you guys, with the opening of the new TIFF Lightbox on King Street, the festival’s entire nucleus has shifted down from Yorkville to the Entertainment District. While I am enjoying hanging out in that part of town, the thing about the Varsity—the main press venue for the last five years I’ve been coming here—is that it is atop a building that houses two coffee shops, a grocery store, Shoppers, an LCBO and a Chapters in which to
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Full Atlantic Film Festival lineup unveiled
Bruce McDonald’s Trigger, starring Molly Parker, Tracy Wright and Don McKellar. On Tuesday, the Atlantic Film Festival revealed the rest of its schedule, and we managed to drag our sweaty fingers across the keyboard to pick out a few early favourites. For those who like to be the first to see big commercial films, there’s […]
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Whatever: Allen’s fllm doesn’t work.
Sometimes, positive rapport with a filmmaker’s work can dissolve into the feeling of a kick in the crotch, thanks to a particularly insulting offering. Woody Allen wrote the script for Whatever Works in the 1970s for Zero Mostel (the lead is now played by Larry David), but it’s an affront in any decade. Woody has […]